December 09, 2009

Paris

I'm moving to Paris.

I'm not moving away from anything, it has been pretty great here in Vancouver, in particular at DDB. Plus the whole being born here and growing up thing. Some day we will return older, world weary and hopefully a little wiser.

I'm moving to shake things up and try something I've never done before. A big part of that is life itself with my wife Lynanne. We've loved our 6.5 years together in this Western slab of North America (only the last 7 months of that technically married) but want to see how we roll outside our comfort zones.

I start work January 4 at DDB Paris. I'm staying in the family. Doing the dame hybrid of account and strategic work I've enjoyed doing. I'm really pleased to carry on with DDB. I've had the chance to peek into some other amazing agencies. The most amazing in fact. We don't always get credit for it but the top DDB shops are just as amazing - though it's easy to overlook as they've been doing it for a while.

I've been handed a pretty awesome piece of business that wants to do stuff more awesome than they currently do. Apparently that's why they wanted me, they liked the awesome stuff I've been lucky to be a part of.

Everyone leaves saying how great people they work with are. The people I worked with at DDB Canada truly are great, not because I think so, but because of the work our teams put out that other people think so. In particular the hung over judges at all the award shows around the world that still recognize the ideas in the brands they have never heard of that we work on here in Vancouver.

If you are in Vancouver we'll be at the Red Card
on Seymour, new joint beside Uva Wine Bar, next Thursday December 17
from about 7pm onwards. (The Alibi Room was booked.) Come say hi/bye
if you care to. If you live in Paris, London, Amsterdam or Geneva drop
me a note and we'll grab a drink next year when I'm in town.